Saturday, May 25, 2019

It Is Time To Put An End To Elder Abuse

By Frances Smith


You cannot bring the exploitation of the seniors to an end unless you initially learn how to identify the symptoms. Elder abuse may involve emotional, physical, or financial ill-treatment. Also, neglecting a senior can be categorized as abusive. Statistics have indicated abandonment and adverse effects as the most popular kind of mishandling that most of the elderly have to face. The fact that no action is being taken against these abusive acts can immensely damage the affected party. Here are various approaches that you can employ to make sure the exploitation of the seniors comes to an end.

If possible, pay a visit to the aged and find out how they are doing. It is advisable you seek answers to questions that might trigger them to confirm of being abused. Where doable, you can have the elderly participate in some occasions organized by their family.

Come up with inventive ways that will make it easy for the aged to share their abilities. Ideally, you may request them to train you or their juniors on some of their skills that can be beneficial. For instance, if they are good at cooking or knitting, these are competencies that they can pass to someone else. Train young people how to recognize their seniors as useful resources for their academic projects. Remember, these elderly in our community have lived in times and witnessed happenings that your kids are now being taught in school.

More often, we hire caregivers to care for our aging parent. The task is not easy and comes with unique challenges that make the care provider to feel exhausted and stressed. Ideally, they need a break to re-energize and relax. Avail that for them.

Considering the many cases reported about financial exploitation of the aged, bank institutions should take swift action and gain relevant skills. Thus, get in touch with the manager of your bank to find out if they have their employees well versed enough to dictate a senior who is abused financially. If not, enlighten them on the importance of having their employees trained on how to recognize an elderly who are exploited financially.

You can also request your local media groups to create awareness about protecting the elderly against any ill-treatment. Also, reach out to the partners who handle matters related to senior maltreatment, to find how you can also be of help. Note, many aged persons are being abused because we are not taking the initiative to protect them from possible abusers.

Come up with posters with a message that encourages caring for the elderly and pin them on strategic locations. If there is a program in place, take part. In events where people are gathered together can be an ideal venue to create awareness. Request if you can be allocated time to give a speech about stopping ill-treatment amongst seniors.

Events, where a massive number of people is expected, is another avenue that will give you a chance to reach out to many. Thus, come up with the right message that can be captioned on the billboards with the event message. Also, you can create an online webpage and sensitize people into ending senior mistreatment in our community.




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